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The Google Nexus S isn’t just a really badass Android phone, it’s a space explorer. A team of Google engineers and University of California students have fired a selection of Google Nexus S phones into orbit to test how they function in the extreme cold and at altitude.

Last year was a big one for Ultima creator Richard Garriott. He had a 12 day jaunt in space and he parted company with NCsoft leaving the ashes of MMO Tabula Rasa in his wake. So what’s next for the video game designer cum space adventurer? He’s going back to his roots, telling the Beeb that he’s keen to get back into medieval fantasy, and probably of the online kind.

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Space RocketThose rides outside supermarkets are the bain of every parents life, you make promises of “if you’re good” on the way in and then have to feel for small change with your hands are full on the way out, you MUST let the children ride however, they never forgive or forget!. This discovery lets them ride all the time and will make your kids the most popular for miles around…..At a price.

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Space SurferIf remote controlling a car upon your ceiling  isn’t off the wall enough for you then perhaps your R/C collection is in need of this utterly out there creation, this small man upon hoverboard is a guaranteed crowd puller in the park.

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A NASA mock up of Orion reaching the space stationNASA’s plan to launch its new space shuttle replacement have have hit a snag, and now the Orion crew-carrier won’t be launching until 2014.

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LEGO in freefall

Lego in SpaceSeven LEGO Mindstorms robots are making a trip to the edge of space as part of this years High Altitude Lego Extravaganza (H.A.L.E.) to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this programming platform.

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NASA’s natty new spacesuitsNASA’s getting ready to return to the moon, and wants its astronauts to look the business when they get there. The answer? Natty new togs for strutting across the lunar landscape.

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Buzz Lightyear prepares for launchWe couldn’t resist bringing you more footage of Buzz Lightyear blasting off on board the Space Shuttle Discovery. Check out the clip below to see the Toy Story star in training from none other than the first man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin!

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